Nobuhiro DOI 土井裕泰
Flying Colors
ビリギャル
Nippon Cinema ª
How a teen girl went from academic absurdity to an elite university in one amazing year – the film's subtitle perfectly sums up the plot of this charming and hilarious, yet controversial high school comedy. The bestseller adaptation about the brutal Japanese school system was one of the big box office hits in Japan in 2015.
ビリギャル
Biri gyaru
Japan 2015
117 minutes
Director
Nobuhiro DOI
Script
Hiroshi HASHIMOTO based on a novel by Nobutaka TSUBOTA
Cinematography
Yasushi HANAMURA
Production
"Flying Colors" Film Partners
World sales
Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)
Cast
Kasumi ARIMURA, Atsushi ITO, Shuhei NOMURA, Tetsushi TANAKA, Yo YOSHIDA
About Nobuhiro DOI
土井裕泰
Nobuhiro DOI, born in Hiroshima in 1964, studied at the Waseda University School of Economics and Politics before launching his directorial career in 1995 with the television series TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME. In 2004, he directed his first feature film, BE WITH YOU. Since then, he has worked regularly in both film and television. His films NADA SOU SOU – TEARS FOR YOU (2006 / NC ’08), FLYING COLORS (2015 / NC ’16), and WE MADE A BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET (2020 / NC ’22) have been shown at the Nippon Connection Film Festival.